Posts tagged "manners"

I have a few friends who cannot make it anywhere on time. We're all busy and yet, I still manage to make it to places on time. What can I do to make them show up? As someone who was awarded the “most punctual” award in eighth grade, I totally feel your pain. I’m of the…

Make It Stop is a new weekly column in which Anna Goldfarb — the blogger behind Shmitten Kitten and Shlooby Kitten — tells you what’s up. Want a fresh take on a stinky dilemma? Email anna@shmittenkitten.com with the subject “Make It Stop.” She’ll make it all better, or at…

Make It Stop is a new weekly column in which Anna Goldfarb — the blogger behind Shmitten Kitten and Shlooby Kitten — tells you what’s up. Want a fresh take on a stinky dilemma? Email anna@shmittenkitten.com with the subject “Make It Stop.” She’ll make it all better, or at least make you laugh. Girl Scout’…

Make It Stop is a new weekly column in which Anna Goldfarb — the blogger behind Shmitten Kitten and Shlooby Kitten — tells you what’s up. Want a fresh take on a stinky dilemma? Email anna@shmittenkitten.com with the subject “Make It Stop.” She’ll make it all better, or at least make you laugh.

Make It Stop is a new weekly column in which Anna Goldfarb — the blogger behind Shmitten Kitten and Shlooby Kitten — tells you what’s up. Want a fresh take on a stinky dilemma? Email anna@shmittenkitten.com with the subject “Make It Stop.” She’ll make it all better, or at least make you laugh.

Make It Stop is a new weekly column in which Anna Goldfarb — the blogger behind Shmitten Kitten and Shlooby Kitten — tells you what’s up. Want a fresh take on a stinky dilemma? Email anna@shmittenkitten.com with the subject “Make It Stop.” She’ll make it all better, or at least make you laugh.

About once a week, I "work from home," which really means that I work from a coffee shop near my apartment. It's a pleasantly balanced crowd — the other young professionals tapping on their laptops give it an "office away from the office" feel, but the parents with strollers and groups gathered around tables remind…

I’ve never been one for chivalry. I prefer to do things my way, and take pride in my own ability to lift things that are heavy, open doors on my own and find my coat in a sea of bodies and sad down jackets at a crowded…

The saga of the fat woman on the Boston T line rages onward. Now, someone has written a new Craigslist missed connection post claiming that the woman herself is the bully, because she allegedly sat on a "kind, older woman" and the original douchebag target, effectively pinning them both down. Here's the…

Let's clear this up right now: taking selfies with dead folks is not an encouraged activity. However, this wasn't so obvious to a high school student on a field trip to the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Anatomical Donor Program, who took the WORST SELFIE EVER with a cadaver in the lab. Her…

One of the hazards of apartment living are thin walls and floors that share your every "Oh, baby!" and bed creak with your neighbors. It's part of life. You get used to it. All of us have sex (I hope) and no one's sex should be ruined by whiny neighbors. The polite thing to do…

The following is an etiquette question sent to one of my favorite blogs, The Kitchn, from a reader: A friend just invited me to his home for Thanksgiving dinner — and asked me to pay $50 upfront. I understand that hosting can be expensive and I wouldn't mind being asked to bring a dish,…

Congratulations, you're engaged! You've decided to combine sock drawers and let someone use the bathroom after you poop for the rest of your life! Now, I hope your arms aren't too full because you're going to spend the next few weeks holding your tongue. Brides- and grooms-to-be, "Congratulations!" or "I'm so happy for you!" i…

Last night, I was lucky enough to have, literally, a front row seat to a concert by the jazz group Jon Batiste and Stay Human. I'm not sure how that happened to little old me, but I'm sure glad it did. The concert was amaaaaazing and it was being filmed for PBS,…

Everything that I say and write is important. Very important. Smetimes when I am writing and my thoughts are super, extra-important, I write it IN ALL CAPS for extra emphasis. Sure, I know some people read capital letters as "screaming," i.e. rude. That's especially true if you're tweeting or writing an entire email in caps.

Shane Snow of the start-up Contently tackles the age-old question of how to properly greet a female colleague over at Medium yesterday, inspiring lively debate on the topic of hugs versus handshakes. Which is the least creepy, least offensive, most effective way to convey conviviality and mutual respect? A brief…

Maybe it's because I'm a Virgo, or because I'm a hundred years old, or both, but seriously? People have zero manners or respect anymore. There are the people who don't understand "quiet voice," the jerks at the coffee shop who never say thank you, the asshats who insist on making other people clean up after…

Okay, I'm pretty sure that the UK's Daily Mail just makes shit up. But I am fairly sure that chivalry died one morning a month ago, when a man shoved me out of the way at the subway station to run up the stairs ahead of me. So even if this Daily Mail piece claiming…

Simply Irresistible

Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…

Oh look, it's hottest DILF alive, Ryan Gosling, making a rare appearance in public grabbing lunch in LA today. And what's that I see? In addition to his perfectly worn T-shirt (that collar is stretched just so), hoodie and leather jacket, the Gos is rocking a few faint letters on his knuckles, spelling out the…